Navy Vice Adm. Mathias Winter, formerly deputy program executive officer for the Defense Department‘s F-35 joint program office, has officially assumed the F-35 JPO chief post, The Hill reported Thursday.

Winter succeeded Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, who is set to retire in June after he led the office for nearly five years, during a ceremony held Thursday at Fort Myer in Virginia.

Winter said he plans to “provide timely continuous communications, make prudent transparent decisions, and deliver on our commitments through crisp, accountable execution” as his office moves to follow-on development and full-rate production phases for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet.

He assumed the position two months after he was nominated as the next F-35 JPO chief.

Winter previously served as chief of naval research, assistant commander for test and evaluation at the Naval Air Systems Command, program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons and director of innovation technology requirements, test and evaluation.

Defense Secretary James Mattis directed other Defense Department officials to allocate funds for the full production of six “preferred” munitions as they prepared a fiscal year 2018 budget plan, Defense News reported Tuesday.

John Roth, deputy comptroller for program budget at DoD, told reporters Tuesday that the department increased its funding request for selected munitions to $3.5 billion in a move to address inventory gaps.

The proposed budget would cover the procurement of Hellfire missiles worth $713.9 million; Joint Direct Attack Munitions worth $874.3 million; Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems worth $889.5; small diameter bombs worth $504.1 million; Tomahawk missiles worth $381.6 million; and Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems worth $200 million.

Roth added the figures reflect the maximum production capacity of companies that produce the six munition systems for the U.S. military.

DoD seeks $16.4 billion in funds to buy weapons such as tactical missiles, conventional ammunition and strategic missiles, reported Defense News.

U.S. Cyber Command chief Michael Rogers has said a portion of Cybercom’s proposed $647 million budget would finance efforts to integrate cyber-related technologies and operations against the Islamic State militant organization, DoD News reported Wednesday.

“We are particularly concerned as adversaries probe and even exploit systems used by government, law enforcement, military, intelligence and critical infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad,” Rogers told a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing Tuesday.

The U.S. Navy admiral said he expects the command’s cyber mission force to be fully operational at the end of the government’s 2018 fiscal year.

Cybercom formed the group to help develop defensive and offensive cyber tools as well as identify cyber workforce professionalization and acquisition strategies.

Rogers, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, added he believes partnering with companies and combining agile methods, technologies and command-and-control systems will increase the command’s potential to counter enemies in cyberspace.

John Roth, a Defense Department budget official who performs comptroller duties, has said the White House’s defense budget proposal for fiscal 2018 intends to rebuild the U.S. armed forces, build on “near-term readiness” efforts in fiscal 2017 and balance future requirements and current operations, DoD News reported Tuesday.

Roth told reporters Tuesday at the Pentagon that DoD aims to create a “bigger, more lethal force” by fiscal year 2019 by leveraging the developments to be made in FYs 2017 and 2018.

He called for a reversal of defense sequestration to help advance DoD’s strategy to re-establish military readiness.

President Donald Trump’s proposed defense base budget of $574.5 billion exceeds the budget cap by $52 billion under the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Roth said DoD should now start the analysis process to facilitate a new round of base closures and realignments by 2021.

Army Lt. Gen. Anthony Ierardi, director of force structure, resources and assessment of the Joint Staff, joined Roth at the news briefing.

U.S. and Saudi Arabia have entered into an agreement to establish a multinational alliance that will identify and implement measures against terrorist financial networks.

The Terrorist Financing Targeting Center will promote collaboration between U.S., Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in efforts to counter terrorist networks, Saudi Arabia’s embassy said Tuesday.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the department will contribute the expertise of its office of terrorism and financial intelligence to TFTC.

The department will co-chair TFTC alongside Saudi Arabia’s ministry of interior.

The center aims to address terror threats such as the Islamic State militant group, al Qaeda, Hizballah, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Taliban and the Haqqani network.

TFTC will also work to identify, track and exchange information on terrorist financial networks; coordinate actions; and offer support to regional partners that need to boost their capacity to defeat terrorist financing.

The participating nations have a long-term goal of bringing experts together in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.